that's it for us. thanks for watching. guns under fire. special background checks continues tomorrow. about 90% of americans expanded tomorrow. erin burnett starts now. >> and good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. we have breaking news. a new imminent threat. nor

north korea has likely completed all the launch preparations. an imminent threat. new u.s. intelligence shows that north korea has now likely completed all launch preparations and the missile test could be, quote, imminent. pyongyang is warning foreigners to leave south korea immediately. as again you're standing there seeing how people respond, are they taking the threat seriously? >> reporter: yes, to a certain extent. and here's why. because this sort of threat levied directly at foreign visitors to south korea, this is a little more rare than all of the other threats. that is ratcheting up of a psychological warfare. foreign visitors aren't used to be directly spoken to by the north korean officials. i can tell you that while they're paying attention, they're not alarmed. i did speak with one american visitor who's here on business. she says she took the unusual step of registering with the u.s. embassy. but she says it didn't stop her from traveling here. it won't stop here from doing business here, in part, because the u.s. government is not restricting travel to south korea yet and this is having an impact on the stock market here, as well as the currency and that's certainly concerning everybody in the region. >> and kyung, we learned it shocks people watching. it did me given the rhetoric. korean and american officials met here in new york city last

month. what do you know about that meeting? >> reporter: we know that this was a secret meeting. there is an absence of normal relations between the united states and north korea. we don't have any direct diplomatic ties to north korea. but what i can tell you is that this was a back channel meeting. there are regular back channel meetings with the u.s. envoy to the six-party talks and north korean vice deputy, ambassador to the united nations, something done in new york. the united states expressing what they wanted was a return to diplomacy with pyongyang. the official to pyongyang saying we're going to communicate that to north korea but apparently, erin, it wasn't either communicated well or they're not listening because we are where we are. >> thanks, kyung. now george little. george, north korea is warning something could happen april 10th and it is april 10th in north korea. should we brace ourselves? >> erin, it would be unsurprised if they decided to conduct a missile launch in the near future. they have done that in the past. hopefully they exercise restraint and do not undertake this kind of irresponsible and provocative act. if they did conduct a missile launch it would be in violation of international obligations and time for them to come in compliance with those obligations. >> if they did some sort of a launch, a test, and they have done this before, given this time what's happening, would that spark retaliation from the

united states or just the u.s. saying, we can't believe you did that? you shouldn't have done it. >> it's not for me to speculate on what we may or may not do but the american people, the south korean people and the north korean regime should know our leaders are prepared to make the right decisions and the right decisions quickly. >> last week i spoke with republican congressman peter king. you know, he said he doesn't always agree with the administration but he said that you've been doing a great job with regards to north korea and he also said he thinks a preemptive attack could be warranted. >> if we have good reason to believe there's a strike, we have a right to take preemptive right to act. >> is he right? >> i think our leaders in washington and the american people are united on the following point. and that is, that we are all prepared to protect our interests, our troops, our territory and our allies in the region, erin.

>> so, i'm wondering how much, you know, you feel we know about what's happening and the right moment to act. former cia operative bob bear told us today the u.s. does not have quality intelligence on north korea and we know less than we thought we knew about iraq prior to that invasion. so are you 100% certain, george, you have enough intelligence to stop north korea before they fire or not? >> we have very solid information and we are closely monitoring the situation. you can never have 100% perfect intelligence. but we have very good intelligence, let me assure you of that. >> george, that's been some criticism as you're no doubt aware, yesterday a lengthy blog posted about the recent vacation with the family. a drive to the second largest city. cherry blossoms, dinner and aquarium visit. and then he talked about having to deal with this crisis in the middle of the cray case. i want to quote him here and not paraphrase. at one point i had to send my daughters to the aquarium gift shop and take part in what i hoped to be a 10-minute conference call but unfortunately lasted 40 minutes. despite all the phone calls and having to work through my vacation, i had a very nice time. are you surprised the ambassador to south korea was on vacation?

>> i don't speak for the state department but all of the political leaders in washington and in korea are closely monitoring when's happening and i can assure you that we're on top of what's going on there. >> probably glad you work for the defense department tonight. george, thank you very much. appreciate your taking the time. >> thank you, erin. all right. and still to come, secret tapes from the office of mitch mcconnell, talking about the strategy against ashley judd, yes, shocking. but is it even more shocking that someone may have literally put a bug in the office? the fbi's involved. later, anthony bourdain and i compare notes about the adventures to parts unknown. 14 people stabbed on a texas college campus. we'll take you there tonight. our second story "outfront," secret recordings. this is not watergate. the fbi says it's looking in to how a recording of mitch mcconnell political aides in the hands of a reporter at a liberal

magazine, discussing ways to attack potential rival ashley judd. mcconnell's campaign says that the office was bugged. that would be a big deal if true. fbi is involved. our jim acosta is "outfront." >> reporter: even though he's not up for re-election for more than a year, mitch mcconnell is gearing up. in an audio recording of "mother jones," mcconnell can be heard in what sounds like a typical strategy session discussing opponents back in february. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: later on, a strategist runs through the opposition research on actress ashley judd who at the time considering a run for mcconnell's seat. judd has since announced she's out of the race.

our second story "outfront," secret recordings. this is not watergate. the fbi says it's looking in to how a recording of mitch mcconnell political aides in the hands of a reporter at a liberal magazine, discussing ways to attack potential rival ashley

judd. mcconnell's campaign says that the office was bugged. that would be a big deal if true. fbi is involved. our jim acosta is "outfront." >> reporter: even though he's not up for re-election for more than a year, mitch mcconnell is gearing up. in an audio recording of "mother jones," mcconnell can be heard in what sounds like a typical strategy session discussing opponents back in february. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: later on, a strategist runs through the opposition research on actress ashley judd who at the time considering a run for mcconnell's seat. judd has since announced she's out of the race. >> can go in chapter and verse from her autobiography about, you know, she suffered some suicidal tendencies. >> reporter: campaign staffers contacted the fbi which is now looking in to the matter.

a campaign manager told cnn the meeting was in a private, closed, locked conference room. among a half-dozen long-time mcconnell aides like a family meeting. the campaign insists this was no leak. more like a watergate-style break-in. >> quite nixonian move. >> reporter: mcconnell blamed progress kentucky which is already smeared the senator's wife. >> the opinion of your campaign staff in kentucky that your office there was bugged and was it appropriate for members of your staff to talk about ashley judd's bouts with depression as a potential campaign issue? >> well, as you know, last month my wife's ethnicity was attacked by a left-wing group in kentucky and then apparently they also bugged my headquarters. >> reporter: outraged that mcconnell staff would target the past struggles, a pokes person said this is yet another example of the politics of personal destruction that embody mitch mcconnell and are pervasive in washington, d.c. >> i can never anticipate what is going to push me over the edge. >> reporter: the campaign once

had its sites set on judd as a potential challenger including her in a web video even though the senator said back in february he wasn't sizing up his opponents. >> i'm not going to start handicapping who might be a -- my opponent. >> reporter: mother jones magazine said it was not involved in the recording of the campaign meeting and the audio came from an anonymous source, a source close to the campaign said there's nothing wrong with discussing judd's personal history adding, quote, any campaign would do that. and it should be ♪ed mcconnell is not heard recording to the discussion in the recording. erin? >> all right. thanks, jim. now peter barnett and anna navarro. what happened here, anna? these recordings cross the line? >> they cross the line if they're illegal, erin.

certainly it's unethical and could be illegal. if somebody put a hidden device in mitch mcconnell's office and made the recordings, absolutely, it's illegal and if they're found out they're probably going to jail and we have to understand you're talking about a campaign and the office of the most powerful, strongest republican in the u.s. senate, a very high level u.s. government official with access to all sorts of information. so if his -- if he's got a

security breach in the office, if there's bugging going on, it's very serious and should be disturbing for all americans. >> peter, i mean, this is -- when they say, look, the meeting is locked meeting, only a few people in the core. we talk to people in that group and say nobody in that group would have recorded it. who knows? but that opens the door to what? >> there was earlier about 75 people there. it's been reported. for the opening of his campaign headquarters. so it seems like a lot of people going in and out of there. >> coup placed a device? >> entirely possible. i find it -- if someone did, this should be investigated. i find it a little ironic given his record on questions of privacy. this man was a huge booster of the bush administration's most invasive efforts to surveil americans after 9/11. but still, if someone was bugging his office, then, yes, we should know about it. >> anna, there's an argument if they're talking like this, the public would love the know. maybe the recorder did us all a

favor. >> oh, i don't know. listen. erin, if the public heard all of the thing that is go on in every political campaign, i don't think anybody would become elected. we would be all anarchists. this is typical. let's be clear. opposition research, entire departments in campaigns. it goes on in every campaign. politics is a hardball, hard knuckle sport. if you want to go, you know, talk about flowers and zen and meditation, you should really join an ashram, not political campaign because you're there to take your enemy out. >> that's why i would rather die than do it. peter, okay, when people hear -- yeah. the truth, right? when people hear this, they think about romney's 47% comment, which somebody recorded. that, of course, was -- you know, nothing wrong right with that. right? it wasn't illegal. interesting that tape and this tape leaked to the same person, a reporter at "mother jones." >> the bigger story isn't what mcconnell said but an age of which it's a lot easier to pick up on what people are saying. >> you need a secret pen knife -- >> right. people have much less privacy than they used to with technology and that changes american politics to force everybody to be more cautious, even in private environments like this. >> someone go to jail for this or no? >> hard for them probably at the end of the day to find this and not going to affect the outcome of whether he's re-elected. >> anna, what do you think?

someone going to go to jail? >> if they get found out, you better believe it. they should go to jail because it sets a precedent that this is over the line and that, you know, the world of campaigning is not the world of espionage and to all my political consultant colleagues and friends out there, let's start learning sign language because it's very hard in this country to have a conversation that cannot be subject to then becoming public. >> that's got to be the line to learn because this is -- this is going to open a can of worms. >> people used to do this because they didn't do it on e-mail and now actually live so it's very tough. >> you can't do it -- good. we should all just shut up. thanks to both of you. we appreciate it. still "out front," anthony bourdain on the two things he hates to eat. iran announced a development. just when the world is looking at north korea. how significant is it? cnn's exclusive interview with gabby giffords. >> in your recovery process, do you want to find and discover the old gabby giffords or do you want to sort of rediscover another new gabby giffords? >> stronger. stronger, better, tougher. our third story "outfront," bourdain is back. he's a chef and probably better known as an author and a tv host. now, you have seen him over the world, libya to cuba and congo. that's where he's been for cnn. anthony and i chatted recently about the new show, called "parts unknown" and his life before he got here to the big red. he's not shy. >> sorry.

were you smooching at? [ bleep ]. >> anthony bourdain is famous for ferocious insults and four-letter words. no strange tore the world's most exotic locations and dishes. yeah. that's a camel. sure wouldn't be my favorite and bourdain doesn't hold back about what he doesn't like either. >> warthog, that's a take one for the team situation. >> and he's passionate about the things he loves. >> beer, explosives and food? can't beat that. >> bourdain wasn't always on the move. the new jersey-born food enthusiast was a line cook for 30 years. >> i was kicking around professional kitchens until i was 44 and before my sort of breakout book, i pretty much resigned myself to the fact that i would never see the world. >> not only did he get to see the world, the name is synonymous with adventure and now the star of cnn's new travel show "parts unknown."

"parts unknown" is a show part cuisine, part culture. tell me how it's different than "no reservations." people love you from that. what will they get on this? >> we shoot at places we never could before like congo and libya because cnn frankly has an infrastructure and experience in places like that and a willingness to let us do something that fool hearty. >> hey, chef. how are you doing? >> bourdain is living up to the promise. the first stop? myanmar. run by a military hunt that until 2011. >> very few people have seen what we were able to see and very few people have been able to show it. a year, a year and a half ago, they would have kicked out a foreign film crew out. >> he doesn't stop there. bourdain says traveling to war and disaster-torn locals like the congo will be par for the course. >> i understand how lucky i am

to see this world and i understand as well having seen a lot of it in a short period of time late in life how much -- how big it is and how much really interesting, amazing stuff there is out there. >> be sure to check out the premier of "anthony bourdain parts unknown" sunday at 9:00 and get a sneak peek at cnn.com. i got to say as someone who travels the world and loves it more than anything, i'm so excited that anthony bourdain here at cnn. and still "outfront," a bizarre story out of texas. we have a live report. our eddie lavandera getting the location. cnn located two kids abducted from this country and taken to cuba. now they could be headed back to

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half of "outfront." we start with stories we care about reporting from the front lines. we begin with what we have just learned here at cnn. the cuban government is turning over a florida couple and two boys who fled the united states to cuba. the story unfolded today when cnn spotted the family on their sailboat in havana. josh and sharon have been on the run after allegedly abducting their boys 4 and 2 from their grandmother's home in florida last week. they had lost custody of their children last year. now, today iran celebrated national nuclear day with the opening of a new uranium processing site. the top negotiator says enrichment is within the rights of the iranian people. with the election approaching, stratford tells us they want tout the program and especially as polling shows many do not think the program is worth the pain the country has been undergoing in sanctions. now, this is going to amaze a lot of you watching. the gulf of mexico apparently had a much greater ability to self clean itself in the aftermath of the deepwater disaster than anybody thought.

people said that this would be years or decades of horror in the gulf. according to terry hazen of university of tennessee, his research shows a bacteria unique to the gulf of mexico exists that quickly absorbed oil and better able to recover from oil spills than anyone ever thought and that it might not last forever. keep in mind, the deepwater horizon in 2010 caused 4.9 billion barrels of oil to spill in the gulf of mexico. if the research is correct, it's pretty incredible it self cleaned. france today said the first troops pulled out of mali and expected to continue as they hand over operations to 6,300 troops. the expert tells us france doesn't want mali to feel abandoned and keeping 1,000 french troops behind to assist and originally said they'd have them out within weeks of when they first went in and said that mali's military is in disarray

and the african force has a lot of work ahead because islamists are not quitting the attacks or locations in mali. 614 days since the u.s. top the credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? dow closing in at a record 14,673 and good news. according to a forecast, the average price of gas is going to be about $3.63 this summer. six center loser than last year. every cent adds up to billions of extra dollars this country. it matters. tonight a developing story on the campus of a texas college. at least 14 people have been injured and of those at least 2 are in critical condition. now, officials say it's a random

building to building attack, their words. a suspect in this police custody. he's said to be a 21-year-old male who was enrolled at the lone star college's sci fair campus. ed lavandera is at the campus. this is such a strange story. >> reporter: well, as you mentioned, it's a 21-year-old male who was a student here, we're told at this lone star community college campus and he's been taken in to custody. and is being questioned. we presume some point in evening, criminal charges will be filed against him and what those criminal charges will be is not exactly clear at this point. but this was a young man here at the campus that we're told by witnesses had to be subdued by three other students who had witnessed the stabbings happening and three students jumped on top of him to subdue him and keep other people from being attacked. but when the call came in to authorities, the 911 call, it was described as a male on the loose around campus stabbing people.

and that's what people rushed to the scene to get a better understanding of and to quell. >> i mean, do you know anything about the weapon that he used? >> reporter: well, it's been described by some people at an xacto knife or a folding knife and not exactly clear and still waiting on official confirmation from investigators. they spoke just a few hours ago and said that they didn't have that information just yet. but we presume that's something they're working toward trying to finalize. the campus was shut down and cordoned off and shut down for the day and investigators said they were going through the buildings still trying to collect evidence and process the scene. >> now, have you heard anything more about the condition of the victims? i know we're saying two of them are in critical condition. do you know about, you know, their chances at this point? >> reporter: well, we're still waiting to hear more information on that but there were initially four patients, four victims that were stabbed here and some of the witnesses described it, these were stab wounds and described holes in people's faces and that sort of thing and gruesome descriptions of what

these attacks looked like and the wounds were like but severe enough that four of the victims had to be air flighted to local hospitals here and initially there were four people in critical condition and now we're being told there's two in critical so hopefully that's a sign that a lot of these young people are starting to recover and recover quickly. >> ed lavandera, thank you very much from cypress, texas, tonight. show down on guns. senate majority leader reid announced today to call for a vote on gun control legislation on thursday and more than a dozen conservative republicans vowed to block the bill with a filibuster. that, though, is not stopping joe biden. >> i promise you. we are going to win this fight. we are going to win this fight. this is not going away. this is not one of these votes if they block a vote that somehow we're going to go away. the american public will not stand for it.

>> earlier tonight, i spoke to senator tom coburn, republican of oklahoma. he is a key republican on this and influential player in negotiating an agreement on background checks and i asked him whether he thinks the senate is going to make a deal. >> i'm a second amendment hawk. gun owner. but i believe we actually could do something that would lessen the probability that a dangerous person would get a gun and do that in the way that doesn't interfere with the second amendment rights or state's tenth amendment rights and that's why i'm discussing this with chuck schumer and others. i think if we can do that and not impair anybody's actual rights, i think we ought to do that and common sense and i think it could have a great outcome for the american community. >> when we talk about universal background checks and 91% of americans are in favor of those, what do you support exactly happening?

>> 91% of americans support an enhanced background check provided there's a no record. that's a big difference. so i think that's an important qualification of that statistic. people ought to be responsible that if they have a gun and they want to sell it, make sure they're not selling to somebody who's mentally impaired or a felon and i think we can figure out a way to do that, u.s. congress, that won't impinge on anybody's rights. >> you are a gun owner and what would be as a law-abiding citizen to say the government can't know that you bought a gun? >> because the government doesn't have a right under the constitution to know whether i bought a gun or not. my right to self defense and my second amendment rights under the constitution doesn't give the government the right to have any knowledge of that. >> do you think that that's what the government would try to do

with this list to use it to confiscate the guns? >> it doesn't matter what the government will do. it matters what the u.s. constitution says. we're chasing a rabbit now. most people are who are law-abiding citizens and gun owners will do the right thing but there is no right for the government to have a list of who owns a gun in the united states. >> i'm also curious, though, about what might happen here with the issue of background checks. i spoke to larry pratt which is an influential pro-gun lobbying group. i asked him how prevent people from right now if you're on the terror watch list, you can buy a gun. and i asked him if that should be okay and here's how he answered that question.

>> that list is sort of like voodoo. nobody really knows how the names get on the list. nobody knows exactly what they have done. they haven't had due process. now, if you want to live in a dictatorship, fine. do something like that. we don't think that's the way america wants to work. >> are you okay with people listed on the terror watch list buying a gun? >> no, i'm not. i'm not okay with people convicted of a felony, especially a violent felony, from buying a gun either.

here's the question that ought to be asked. do we as americans think people who are mentally impaired and are a danger to themselves or somebody else or people who are convicted felons of crime not -- i'm not talking white collar crime but crime, should they have their rights limited and when it comes to buying a gun? and i think most americans would agree that they probably should. >> so, the man larry pratt talked about the terror watch list and a different point of view than you and "the new york times" said -- >> it's not clear. >> it's not commented and "the new york times" said you backed away with the negotiations from chuck schumer because of that. >> well, you know, that's just totally inaccurate. i didn't back away from any negotiations. chuck schumer quit talking to me. i had a position that's been the same all along. i'm willing to do what it takes to actually make a difference so we don't have guns in the hands of people who shouldn't have them. how we do that is important. where chuck and i differed is how we did but i didn't back away. look. i'm not running for another elective office. i believe in the constitution. i actually follow the constitution. i don't pay attention to interest groups. >> final question, sir, on terms of the filibuster. senate majority leader mcconnell -- >> it's not going to be filibustered. >> yeah? >> no, it's not. provided harry reid has an open amendment process to where he guarantees us if we have

legitimate bills that are within the scope of this bill and we have a legitimate amendments, if he's not going to limit those, we ought to have this debate. america needs to know where we stand. they need to know where we stand on protecting the bill of rights and also where we stand in terms of common sense. >> all right. thanks very much for tom coburn. a person watching the gun control debate very closely is gabby giffords. you know she was shot in the head and nearly killed two years ago. she spoke exclusively to our dana bash and the recovery. the interview airs tonight on "ac 360." take a look. >> in your recovery process, do you want to find and discover the old gabby giffords or do you want to sort of rediscover another new gabby giffords? >> stronger. stronger, better, tougher. stronger, better, tougher. >> not resentful? >> no, no. >> how's that possible? >> move ahead. move ahead. >> dana and anderson join me now for more on the story. dana, you know, it is like you said how's that possible to not want revenge and she said that. what does she attribute this to? how's she able to be so incredibly strong and optimistic? >> i think first of all and knowing her a little bit before she was shot it is just her nature but it really is fascinating, erin, being around her and those close to her that she's had remarkable progress, even over the past few months since she and her husband started this organization to try to push to curb gun violence and what they're telling me is that she's had the progress because she has a purpose again. she's not just focusing on her own recovery but public policy and got her energized like

before she was shot and that's helping. >> dana, she talk about what the most frustrating part is for her at this point? >> so many. her right arm is paralyzed. her light leg is paralyzed. i think probably the biggest thing is that she still can't speak. she was a politician. she was known as being a very articulate politician even for people here in congress who talk for a living, it's so clear she understands. >> must be so frustrating. >> especially since she clearly understands what's happening and can't connect it to language. >> got to be so difficult. anderson, i know, obviously, you are in washington with dana and the gun debate is going on.

hot and heavy there and talking to tom coburn. says no filibuster. others beg to differ with him. you're focusing on it all night tonight. >> talking to a senator who will filibuster and why he feels that's so important and talk to the mother of dylan hockley, a newtown parent brought here to try to convince lawmakers to move forward with gun control legislation. she'll be joining us on the program. also, this incredible story. cnn reporter finding this family in cuba that is on the run. two little boys taken, abducted from their grandmother's house. we'll have the latest on that

and the likelihood of those kids being returned to the united states. >> see you both in a few minutes. looking forward to that interview, dana. >> thank you. today this headline caught my headline. francois hollande's camel eaten in mali. it goes back to february when an official presented the official of france with a camel in gratitude for france's fight against islamic militants in mali. the noise you hear is the camel. you can barely hear hollande say i'll take him home and use him for transportation. he left the animal with a family in mali saying they'd watch it but shortly after leaving, the family slaughtered it and used it for a stew. how did this happen? well, according to hollande there are two reasons. first, he didn't think a desert animal to quote with the rigors of the harsh french climate. ah, president hollande, there's nothing harsh about paris and camels live in colder zoos. that doesn't add up. [ speaking french ] hollande blamed the complex procedures involved in bringing a cam knell to france. all right. maybe he had us there. what are the procedures? well, that brings me to tonight's number. five. as in section five of the animal importation page of the french

embassy website. the first four sections everything from dogs and cats to ferrets and birds. no camels. but at the bottom there is a section called other species. that allows you to contact the embassy. so we called. they were quick and extremely polite. they said that if president hollande serious about bringing the camel home he would have left it with a vet for checking and not a family and needed quarantines and vaccines and then could have been in paris. it's not that complex. he didn't want to deal with the regulations of france like a lot of other people. you know, there's good news. just before we went on the air, the guardian reported a government official of mali says they'll replace it with a bigger and better camel sent to be paris. interesting the government of mali can negotiate french regulations better than the man that creates them. kate middleton is about to set sail on a new adventure and we are not talking about the baby. we mean it literally. we're back with the outer source reaching out the sources around the world and beginning in brazil where another arrest is made in the gang rape of an american tourist in rio de janeiro. i asked shasta darlington how the new suspect who's just 13 years old is involved in the crime. >> reporter: erin, police have now arrested a 13-year-old boy.

he's the fourth suspect in that case involving the kidnapping and gang rape of an american tourist ten days ago. she and her french boyfriend were brutally attacked and robbed aboard a mini bus in rio de janeiro. now, police say the boy was involved in the robbery. they believe that he helped collect the credit cards. brazilian newspapers say that the boy has also confessed to beating the frenchman with a metal pipe. now, this is a story that has gripped all of brazil and kept rio in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, erin. >> thanks to shasta. now england where there's a growing controversy of a funeral for former prime minister margaret thatcher. ♪ [ female announcer ] from meeting customer needs... to meeting patient needs... ♪ wireless is limitless. ♪ from finding the best way... ♪ to finding the best catch... ♪ wireless is limitless.

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we're back with the outer source reaching out the sources around the world and beginning in brazil where another arrest is made in the gang rape of an american tourist in rio de janeiro. i asked shasta darlington how the new suspect who's just 13 years old is involved in the crime. >> reporter: erin, police have now arrested a 13-year-old boy. he's the fourth suspect in that case involving the kidnapping and gang rape of an american tourist ten days ago. she and her french boyfriend were brutally attacked and robbed aboard a mini bus in rio de janeiro. now, police say the boy was involved in the robbery. they believe that he helped collect the credit cards. brazilian newspapers say that the boy has also confessed to beating the frenchman with a metal pipe. now, this is a story that has gripped all of brazil and kept rio in the headlines for all the

wrong reasons, erin. >> thanks to shasta. now england where there's a growing controversy of a funeral for former prime minister margaret thatcher. >> reporter: erin, this won't be a state funeral but in many ways it will look like one. coffin will be carried. in a military procession to support cathedral for service attended by the queen. there are those on the right who believe they should be upgraded to a state funeral. that would be appropriate for such a great former leader. they think -- well, rather those on the left, they think they should be a public occasion at all. what we do know is that margaret thatcher is becoming a more polarizing figure after her death. and so are the plans for her funeral. erin? >> thanks, max.

now, our fifth story out front. this question is actually at the center of a court hearing in florida tied to casey anthony's bankruptcy case. she was akwited of murdering her daughter, kaylee, two years ago. the trustee trying to get that money back wants her most valuable asset. her story. kasey anthony could go from being in debt to being really rich. so does the case really add up? david matingly is out front. >> almost two years after she was found not guilty of killing her two-year-old daughter, there's no doubt caysey anthony still generates enough intrigue and loathing to launch a best seller. and her creditors want it. anthony reveals she is an incredible $790,000 in debt. a half a million of that is owed

to her attorney, jose biaz. her story appears to be the only thing of value she has. >> i don't pay rent. i don't pay utilities. i guess you could say i'm living for free. >> a federal bankruptcy judge will decide if caysey anthony's story still belongs to her or does it belong to a bankruptcy trustee who wants to auction it off? imagine, to the highest bidder, a potential page turner that seems to have it all. a young, attractive, single mom, the hard partying suspect, out on the town while her little girl was missing. sex, lies and a heart-breaking innocent little victim. >> the state is saying that this was such a depraved act that it was first degree murder and they were seeking the death penalty against her. women don't face capital murder very often. >> and how often does this

happen? >> not guilty. >> an ending with a twist made for hollywood. amanda knox turned her high profile, not guilty verdict into a deal. so did o.j. entertainment attorney allen clark says caysey anthony would find a large audience. >> if you were representing her, what would you go to the table and ask for? >> we would be in the six figures, absolutely. >> and that, he says, is conservative. there could be enough money in a caysey anthony book to pay off her debts and still have money to fight out over other pending lawsuits. >> and u no to tonight's outtake. kate middleton is about to be a mother. but, first, she'll be a god mother to a ship. it was announced today that princess cruise lines has accepted an invitation to name

the cruise line's newest ship. the royal princess. as part of her duties, she will attend the maiden launch and keeping in with tradition, smash a bottle of champagne. princess cruise lines is operated by carnival cruises. >> everyone was just chaotic trying to get off the ship. >> we had intermittent water and toilets. honestly, i don't think this ship should have ever sailed out. >> okay, the association is hoping to expect that. if the generators fail in the royal princess and passengers are forced to wear bathrobes to keep warm, why not give them really nice ones.

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